Software metrics as a subject area is over 30 years old, but it has barely penetrated into mainstream software engineering. A key reason for this is that most software metrics act...
This paper, in the first chapter summarizes the state of the art in SCM, showing the evolution along the last 25 years. Chapter 2 shows the current issues and current research wor...
Explicitly stated program invariants can help programmers by characterizing certain aspects of program execution and identifying program properties that must be preserved when mod...
Michael D. Ernst, Adam Czeisler, William G. Griswo...
Object-oriented modeling has become the de-facto standard in the early phases of a software development process during the last decade. The current state-of-the-art is dominated b...
We demonstrate how XML and related technologies can be used for code mobility at any granularity, thus overcoming the restrictions of existing approaches. By not fixing a particul...
Wolfgang Emmerich, Cecilia Mascolo, Anthony Finkel...
The construction of a large class of distributed systems can be simplified by leveraging middleware, which is layered between network operating systems and application components....
Simulation is frequently used for training in many application areas like aviation and economics, but not in software engineering. We present the SESAM project which focuses on so...
The development of software systems is a complex process involving a variety of individual tasks, collaborative work, and lifecycle management of the resulting products and produc...
Klaus R. Dittrich, Dimitris Tombros, Andreas Geppe...
Is there such a thing anymore as a software system that doesn't need to be secure? Almost every softwarecontrolled system faces threats from potential adversaries, from Inter...
Building software systems with reusable components brings many advantages. The development becomes more efficient, the reliability of the products is enhanced, and the maintenance...